21 「Divine Chant」 (2/2)

”What are you?” The Divine Chant withdrew her angel, calculating that she would likely survive long enough to escape at some point should she surrender.

”I'm an Arch Mage, who obtained eternal life,” he stopped pointing at her as he rested his one hand at his side while lazily twirling the staff he had used just once now. ”I'm a being mistakenly called an Arch Lich due to my undead nature.”

His sapphire eyes remained on the woman as she slowly lowered herself to the ground. Her sandal wearing feet resting on the grass. It appeared she was surrendering.

”Not that you're going to be able to tell anyone.”

Tapping the bottom of his staff against the ground, 「Mass Dominate Person」.

Very briefly as he cast this spell, their eyes lit up blue, only to return to their normal hues.

The Fourth, Seventh and Eleventh seats all approached him before falling to one knee in a triangular formation around him.

”What is your bidding, Lord Cipher?” They spoke in overlapping sync, making it sound almost musical. They wore small smiles on her lips, it was as if they had completely forgotten he had massacred their scripture. Ignorance to the dead standing soldiers as well was very clear, they no longer cared for them.

This 「Mass Dominate Person」essentially brainwashed them, turning them into loyal followers with disdain for the Slane Theocracy. Hatred whether true or engineered was a powerful weapon. Otherwise, he didn't make that many changes to their dominated minds.

”We will be returning to the Carne village, I shall grant you new names.”

”Thank you...” Uttered the Seventh Seat, looking up to him as the others kept their eyes to the ground.

He stared back down at her as she thanked him, before nodding to her. ”Sia,” he bestowed this name to the school uniform wearing female, before turning his eyes to the other two.

”Sia...” The female was tasting the name which she had been given on her lips, on her tongue. The tip of her tongue caressed the interior of her upper lip. She seemed oddly proud of it.

”Elle,” this time he named the Fourth Seat previously known as Divine Chant.

A bright, but small, smile parted her lips as she looked up to him. ”...”

As his skin became visible once more, visibly solid, his eyes were on the last female. His eyes rested on the large hat which covered her head and hid her form. He reached forward and pulled it from her head.

The Eleventh Seat looked up at him with wide eyes, but they quickly relaxed.

”And you will be getting actual clothes,” he uttered as he looked over her attire. Two different toned thigh high socks, some sort of pink top, a pair of shorts and visible panties. While he wasn't honorable, he didn't like the skimpy attire unless it were in a private setting.

However he also quickly noticed something else behind her, a ball of some sort. Red and black.

”Hm... Your new name will be Astra,” he based her name on her alias, the Thousand Leagues Astrologer. She reminded him of a cat almost as she was staring up at him after giving her this name.

There was this look in her eyes that he couldn't quite understand.

It reminded him of a kitten, or that of a lost puppy. Even though he had brainwashed her, deep in her eyes was the fear of being consumed by him. Being killed, losing her life. She was a fearful individual who could easily be oppressed by those more powerful than her.

Especially if they could destroy an entire army of weak enemies with a flick of their wrist.

Much like how Ainz has yet to discover he is capable of doing just that to an army of humans in this realm. Though he may already be knowledgable, Jack sure wasn't.

「Undeath Army」

He cast the seventh tier spell, summoning an army of undead monsters, primarily consisting of zombies. However unlike normal ones, their Karma was 0. They held no ill will towards the living, but they'd practically follow any command he made towards them.

He watched as they'd come out of what looked like black goop from the ground. Even the bodies of the soldiers became zombies.

Within several minutes there was a massive horde of zombies in the forest. All of which surrounding him and the three former members of the Black Scripture.

He couldn't help but chuckle to himself.

The one donned as Astra was practically hiding behind his cloak, all of these suddenly appearing undead gave her a fright. Though the other two hardly responded other than eying them as they brushed shoulders.

”Invade the Slane Theocracy... Kill as many as you can.”

This was his simple command and with that they all began to gather tighter together as they made their way towards the border. It was clear that this was going to be a surprise for the Theocracy. He was wondering how they'd react. Losing contact with their most powerful team and being invaded by the undead shortly after. He could only chuckle at the idea. Though he was sure they had some powerful people left over.

Once the horde was off in the distance, Jack turned and summoned a portal with the 「Gate」 spell and walked inside without much of a care on his face.

The three others followed close behind, the Fourth seat glancing behind themselves in the direction of the Theocracy before walking into the portal just before it closed.